Still, any excuse for a party – and these days it seems that the cash rewards of Champions League football, plus the club’s standing in terms of recruiting top players, is a pretty good one.

Wonder what Patrick Vieira would have made of it. Nine years ago he lifted the Premier League trophy after a 2-2 draw at, ouch, White Hart Lane, for Wenger’s Invincibles. There were still four games to play.

In the intervening years, Wenger has done a brilliant job steering his team into the top four on a relatively modest budget while focus went on building a stadium instead. And won an FA Cup in 2005.

But the long wait for a trophy seems to have chipped away at expectations to the extent that Sunday’s win on Tyneside sparked such over-the-top reaction.

Kieran Gibbs admitted: 'We were jumping around celebrating but haven’t actually won anything', while rival fans mobbed Twitter to criticise and suggest some perspective might be in order in a season which delivered winners.

Back in the day: Arsenal last won the Premier League in 2004 and haven't lifted a trophy since the 2005 FA Cup

Like Swansea, Capital One Cup victors and in Europe, or Wigan who will always treasure the FA Cup win over Manchester City.

Then there is Manchester United, who never accept anything other than top, snatching back the title from the noisy neighbours.

Chelsea supporters in Amsterdam could hail winning the Europa League – but finishing third in the Premier League was no cause for celebration.

Arsenal fans will argue that clubs who survived by the skin of their teeth also celebrated wildly. But that’s like a condemned man escaping the hangman’s noose.

Sunday’s reaction showed that Wenger’s next priority is to raise the bar again.

But these teams had real reason to celebrate...

Champions: Manchester United won the Premier League in Sir Alex Ferguson's final season in charge

Champions of Europe: Chelsea beat Benfica in Amsterdam last week to win the Europa League

Underdogs: Wigan shocked Manchester City at Wembley to win the FA Cup

Up for the cup: Michael Laudrup led Swansea to Capital One Cup glory earlier in the season